Tuesday, January 22, 2008

The first round of Sacred Music archives is complete, though we are missing issues from the late 90s and early 2000s, for now.

Just to give you a sense of what is going on here, this publication is the oldest continuously published journal of its kind in the Western world. Alone among publications during the era of the great divide (V2), it survived, and kept coming out, even as the rest of the Catholic publishing world fell apart was reinvented. No one on the staff was paid a dime. It was published through member dues. (Some things haven't changed!)

So what we have here is something of a printed hermeneutic of continuity, a publication that stitches the new to the old in a marvelous way. It alone upheld the view of V2 that is increasingly becoming mainstream: it was a continuation of tradition, not a departure from it. For this reason, I'm very pleased, as are many people, that it is being made available for the world.

Volume 114.2, Summer 1987 (Church Music in America, Modzekewski; Toward a New Church Music, McGowan; Papal Honors for American Musicians, Schuler; Gregorian Semiology, Fowells; The Conductor and the Church Choir, Lawton)

Volume 111.4, Winter 1984 (The Tridentine Mass, Schuler; Guiding Principles in Liturgical Formation, Baldanza; Attitude of the Church Towards Music from the Patristic Age to the Late Middle Ages, R.D. Henry)

Volume 111.3, Fall 1984 (The Tridentine Mass, Schuler; Guiding Principles in the Liturgical, Baldanza; The Attitude of the Church, Henry)

Volume 111.2, Summer 1984 (The Sacred Liturgy, Hogan; Liturgical Abuse and the Church Musician, Galles; The Music and the Liturgy of Lent, Zuhlsdorf)

Volume 103.1, Spring 1976 (Church Music Since Vatican II, Mawby; The Faith and Cultural Heritage of Bavaria and Austria, Hogan; Art and the Beatific Vision, Wilson; How Can You Have a Latin Mass?, Schuler)

Volume 102.4, Winter 1975 (The Christ Principle in the Liturgy, Holloway; Solesmes in the 1970’s, O’Connor; How to Buy a Pipe Organ, Ettel; The Musical Shape of the Liturgy, Mahrt; Native Music for the Missions, Schuler)

Volume 102.3, Fall 1975 (What We Profess, Schuler; The Musical Shape of the Liturgy, Mahrt; The New Books for High Mass, Hughesdon; Latin Liturgy Association, Hitchcock)